Contaminating the swimming pool....

Lol!!! I dont think so. I wonder how many people pee in the pool. Your little gas formed a bubble and didnt stay in the water. So toot away as long as you dont poot. When my kids and my sisters kids were still at home we used to get together and go swimming at the lakes. My sister used to get out of the lake to go pee. I would always laugh at her. I mean hey the fishs were probably doing more than that in the same water. Also it was a very big body of water. i dont think a little pee would make any difference.

that's funny.. i think i have done that also... just kiddin.. of course not.. you just expelled methane gas which will go the the atmosphere and not contaminate the pool.. but urinating on a pool is a lot more different i think you have done that also.. :)

hi theresaaiza no I do not think it contaminated the water as it probably rose out of the water any way. I bet the odds are other people have been caught the same way and had to do what comes naturally. so I think you did no harm. Now if you had peed and pooed that might have been different but gas probably rose out of the water and just dissipated anyway. so don't worry yourself needlessly.

Could you smell it when it reached the surface ?

No, i don't think you would have contaminated the water with just a fart. Since it's just methane and technically doesn't contain bacteria. What does have bacteria on the other hand is stool. But then again, since there's chlorine, it doesn't really matter anymore although it is disgusting (the stool I mean), because chlorine will kill the bacteria.

it was just gas so no problem. but you don't know what the other people in the pool might have done already. ewwwwww!

Gasses are also dissolvable in water. That is how fish "breathe," taking the oxygen out of the water. It will take a lot of gassy people to note a difference, I'm sure. Same thing with urination, though I wouldn't go into a very crowded pool. I think it would have to be a wet poof to put bacteria into the water, but if they use chlorine or salt, that should take care of it.

so long as it was JUST air, no

I wouldn't worry about a little gas contaminating a public swimming pool. I'm sure it was heavily chlorinated.

I hope not, the pool you swim in should have enough chemical load to overcome a little gas, reality shows that others are contributing more than that into the water. Now take a big mouth full and spit it out. blessings.

I'm no expert, but I would not think that would contaminate. Maybe it depends on if all of the bubbles popped? If young children swim in the same pool, I highly doubt that contamination from bubbles is much to worry about...

hahah well that is a good question but i don't believe that a fart would release any bacteria but if you pee in the pool that can spread alot of bad things to other people. i heard that you can get infections down there if your unlucky at a public pool

Gah...I would of been out of the pool in an instant if I knew... I know that little fart couldn't have contaminated the pool by much but that's assuming it wasn't a wet one and that you weren't ill .